<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present “Fields and Fences,” featuring works exploring the duality of liberation and constraint.</p>
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<p><strong>University Chorale</strong><br><em>Giselle Wyers, director<br>Serena Chin, piano</em></p>

<p><span>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University of Washington Symphony in a program of music by Kurt Atterberg, Jean Sibelius, and Johannes Brahms. With faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday, performing Sibelius' Violin Concerto<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the orchestra. </span></p>
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<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers) present their Winter Quarter concert. The University Chorale presents “Village Bells," a program of works by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Aaron J. Kernis, Veljo Tormis, and others. With special guest narrator Guntis Smidchens, and soloist Sophia Parker. The Chamber Singers presents "Improvisation, Collaboration, Creation," a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Jocelyn Hagen/Spearfisher, and young composers from Seattle's Columbia Choirs organization (Katrina Turman, executive director).

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<p><strong>NOTE: This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a future date.</strong></p>
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<p>John-Carlos Perea and guests perform “Improvising Home” for jazz ensemble. Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and composed by Perea in 2016, this performance revisits and reinterprets the score following Perea’s 2023 arrival at the UW, where he serves as Ethnomusicology associate professor and adjunct associate professor of American Indian Studies. </p>
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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Saëns, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions--Flora Cummings, viola; Kaisho Barnhill, marimba; and Sandy Huang, piano. Also on the program, works by <span>Mikhail </span>Glinka, Richard Wagner, and <span>Giuseppe </span>Verdi.</p>
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<p>Faculty colleagues Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Benjamin Lulich, clarinet; Sarah Rommel, cello; and Craig Sheppard, piano, perform one of Olivier Messiaen’s signature works, The Quartet for the End of Time, composed in 1940-41 during Messiaen's detention in a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland.</p>
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<p>The Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (David Stewart, Solomon Encina, Yuman Wu, directors) present "Radiance," a program of music by Christopher Cerrone, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and others. With faculty artist-in-residence Carrie Shaw, soprano, and winners of the Winds Concerto Competition. </p>
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<p><em>David Stewart, Solomon Encina, Yuman Wu director</em></p>

<p><br>Electroacoustic trio<span> </span><em>uluuul</em> (Carrie Shaw, soprano; Mabel Kwan, keyboard; Mauricio Pauly, multi-instrumentalist and electronic music creator) performs music from their latest collaboration, created with support from the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF). </p>
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<p>Selected from 689 applicants from 44 countries, composer Chris Trapani was awarded the Barlow commission for a new song cycle to be premiered by an elite quartet of sopranos, including UW’s own Carrie Shaw. Hear the premiere of this major contribution to American art song, alongside works by living composers from around the world in her program "The Weight of Sweetness: Songs for All the Senses." Shaw is joined onstage by faculty colleagues Cristina Valdés, piano; and Andrew Romanick, piano and vocoder.</p>
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<p>The UW Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (Shaun Day, director) present “Uplift,” a program of music by Jack Stamp, Melissa Wang, Salvador Alan Jacobo, Vincent Persichetti, Steven Bryant, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and others.</p>
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<h4>UW Symphonic Band<br>Shaun Day, director</h4>